Fuel tanks are leaking and the water desalination system is broken on the Russian warship Alexander Otrakovsky off of the coast of Syria near the port of Tartus in the Mediterranean Sea.
The new Syrian government refuses the evicted occupiers access to the port.
The new Syrian government refuses the evicted occupiers access to the port.
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https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russian-ship-kotov-destroyed-crimea-drones-magura-v5/32848407.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-plants-flag-staking-claim-to-arctic-region-1.679445
Russia never plays by any rules, so forfeits any claim to reasonable access or decency
If not, what was your purpose?
Those now look impotent in the face of growing autocracies.
The resource wars have begun.
all that ordnance, hardware, manpower and supplies sitting on the pier and nothing to carry it away
...ohh dear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropucha-class_landing_ship